the week's top stories are turkey's call for a no fly zone in syria fails to get support at the security council with the new u.n. peace envoy arguing any military interference that would make. iran welcomes a chorus of support for its peaceful nuclear program at the nonaligned. doing a blow to u.s. . the republicans nominated presidential

candidate mitt romney promises a hardline stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on previous policies. five billion dollars out of his fortune. was a fundamentally. and with a recap of the week's top stories this is r t with the weekly glad to have you with us the most open push for military intervention in syria came this week proposed by turkey has requested security for refugee camps inside the country which would lead to foreign forces guarding the camps while they are protected by a no fly zone but the idea hit a dead end at the security council as several member states expressed strong

reservations about militarizing a humanitarian effort. could completely bypass the un if the conflict were meanwhile the new international envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi said that any intervention would. professor paul sheldon foote from california state university believes that it's not about ending the violence. it's a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the country years seeing the united nations as your vehicle that playbook worked in libya they want to try the same playbook and do it doesn't work anymore well there is no desire. for us near the negotiated settlement the older purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east or in such areas by way of syria iran and other places i think the people in the west to be very happy that ended up with a massive civil war and a breakup of their country the lack of competition the fight for. their claim that

they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross. to more bomb blast to have had damascus going off almost simultaneously near the headquarters of the joint chiefs of staff state t.v. says four people were injured in the explosions the number of bomb attacks some of which have been claimed by al qaeda have grown sharply in recent months and they are said to be sowing panic among residents of the capital and across the country as well fueling the exodus of refugees but as artie's policy reports what they find when they escape often thanks and wish they'd never left. exhausted and drained there's not much for these refugees to do besides sweltering under the school ching desert sun sheltering from the vine inspect home soon yet they walk for days in the heat to get here and so they come in numbers and under the wire not one person here has gone through the official border as in state depending on the

level of violence in syria as many as a thousand people each day off in a cross into jordan that picked up from the border by the jordanian police and brought here to the scamp. and now a man doesn't know what to do with them the country is struggling with few natural resources little water and is in need of foreign aid their growing number is putting pressure on an already refugee way republic we can't order on the faces of the refugees we have to help syria is like a sister to. president assad friends now are saying is a very difficult situation has a direct impact. relations between a man in damascus are already strained a number of defected soldiers and senior officers are being sheltered in the kingdom the most high profile refugee was the prime minister riyad hitch up who fled to turkey through jordan earlier this month and then that the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from

jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power. problems where we have our own extremists. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this. fear here is so. serious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place

bash caught between both sides it might not be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in policy r t three refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border with of the pressure on syria piling up france is increasingly being seen as a leader of the west's efforts against assad but director of the french center for intelligence studies says french policies on syria depend on a steady stream of one sided reporting i would say we don't really foreign policy for the time being i mean the mainstream in paris is in motion everything is about emotion we are absolutely and the disinformation of movies of the doctor. and then order or al-arabiya and the people are reacting only we don't have the least good reflection about geopolitics and the but the movie after glee in the middle east even if the political leaders are changed you know

a few months ago most of the police see the same and most of the diplomatic teams are of the same groups lack of friends is now the new luxury of the u.s. like the u.k. has always been this is where the operation is good between us and france because we are doing their policy. selective reporting however isn't just limited to france earlier this week there was another glaring example. a story about how rebels were caught using a blindfolded prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber disappears from mainstream airwaves the latest in a series of such reports that were quickly shelved. also we begin publishing that millions of leaked to the syrian government e-mail blasts what he calls the trans national surveillance empire that is taking over the developing world. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries voiced their approval of peaceful

atomic research in the country this was the key point in a unanimously adopted resolution that wrapped up a nonaligned movement summit in tehran the us and israel have been left to reeling by the success of the gathering as they've been trying to undermine it all along it comes as a new i.a.e.a. report suggested iran has doubled its nuclear capacity but the document was rejected by tehran as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and its western allies when un chief ban ki moon appeared out that he condemned their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on iran geo political analyst eric draitser believes the summit clearly indicates the u.s. efforts to isolate iran have been in vain. the iranians first of all they believe that they have the inherent right according to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they have the right to have a nuclear program so long as it's for peaceful purposes as is now accepted international law the united states and israel to to

a large extent are terribly embarrassed about the fact that the nonaligned movement summit has gone off as a tremendous success. in many ways is part of what the leader in iran called the overt dictatorship of the united nations that is to say that the i.a.e.a. is always led by us produced think tank individuals like l. barra die or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law iran plans to return its oil experts to the levels they were before july's that you ban and in achieving that tehran expects help from its asian partners japan india and china have been regular customers of iranian crude despite the current sanctions author and journalist. believes the nonaligned movement summit has shown the world's real feelings towards iran the united states and nature do not want

any type of or. to remain with. nations it's a great pity and i hope those capitals as nato capitals will get increasingly moved frightened by what is happening as the global comes closer together in their attempts to trade with through what is basic western hegemony they have views regarding any type of peace in the middle east will hold famo sway than any here imposed views from london washington to brussels and i suppose the way that they react is by not covering it in the mainstream media as much. still ahead for you later this hour she was killed on purpose. our team hears from a witness to the death of u.s. activist rachel corrie who was killed by an israeli army bulldozer a court controversially cleared the military of any blame plus. explores the reasons behind and unprecedented rise of islamic excrete the stream ism in russia

following a series of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. mitt romney officially accepted his nomination as republican presidential candidate this week as he did so he slammed his rival barack obama saying his handling of foreign affairs was poor romney said a much tougher stance must be taken towards some countries including russia but critics have questioned much of what was said artie's going to church or can comments. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also at nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any masorti towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone end of quote and of course that adds up

to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one job political enemy and that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he says on his website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney makes up for a lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt romney himself is often characterized as lacking the backbone as he has flip flopped on so many issues like abortion he was for abortion before he was against it or illegal immigration he was for giving them legal status that he was for deporting them mitt romney is flip flops have been widely discussed they've become an endless source of inspiration for comedians this is this is from the tonight show with jay leno it says actually mitt romney and hurricane isaac have something in common they can both change direction said any moment and another comedian goes

obama is like you can be whatever you want to be while romney is like i can be whatever you want me to be there are tons of jokes about mitt romney and his backbone issues apparently one way of showing some backbone for him is this kind of tough talk full of threats we'll see how far it will take him in this november election. meanwhile in charlotte north carolina hundreds of occupy demonstrators took to the streets ahead of the democratic national convention protesters are marching through the city's business districts chanting slogans and holding up signs decrying corporate influence on u.s. politics the democrats' convention is set to open in the city on later on monday earlier demonstrators gathered in tampa during the republican national convention but the turnout was less than expected due to hurricane isaac that passed through florida. a u.k. court has shattered the hopes and of the reputation of russia as. boris berezovsky

his high stakes lawsuit against a billionaire compatriot. which was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in a british legal history artie's lawyer smith is in london and has the story for us . the final verdict in this case found against a body that is old school which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for for a. run up but i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appeared to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up all the viewing of the general public the. old brushes mego rich and what they got up to back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about stiff sums of money

offshore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with new documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's brought to london to school building billion ads along with their own megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around these courts area in the shades in a menacing way but he spit his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i promote it intimidates him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact him but his own skin never business partners that he was making payments to better but they were only for political protection. ruth in russian but as he wanted five point six billion

dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two from this is being one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been. hundreds and resulted in millions of. legal so we've had there is. no win this time around we may see more cases. well news of that mega rich court battle over billions in london might not go down so well in crisis hit spain where one in four out of work or figures from that expert opinion more on that in just a few minutes. and two hundred years after a battle when russia fought against the invasion of napoleon and. a defeat for justice that's how a u.n. official branded the verdict by an israeli court clearing the military of any blame

for the death of us activist rachel corrie she was run over by an army bulldozer in two thousand and three the twenty three year old was taking part in a protest against the demolition of palestinian homes in gaza but the judge ruled it was an accident brought on by cory's own actions human rights groups have criticized the decision fearing the case sets a dangerous precedent that will allow israel defense forces to operate with impunity journalist tom dale witnessed cory's death and claims he's sure the driver killed her on purpose is tremendously just pointing out on the basis of what i saw on that day in two thousand and three it's absolutely not possible to characterize what happened next in my view so i told the coach and as i told the. bulldozer driver. drive up. before he got to right during which time he must have been able to see. both that took place just before she was

crushed. on the mound of trying to escape so my mind it's absolutely no doubt that he would have seen a. military. such crimes. fortunately sometimes by the close. attacks by radical muslims on moderate islamic leaders in russia have been on the rise recently prompting fears of a surge in extremism and influential sheikh was killed today in darkness don when a female suicide bomber entered the clerics omit disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes after a double assault on moderate muslim figures in central russia in july or tuesday but peace can often found out where the roots of extremism are leading. the trip to work that turned to tragedy. had moved he was driving when to seize a blast threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of

radical ideas among believers survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlights now on the other stun most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in washington yes some of the local muslim community are financed by arab families from states where as an official religion on the couple the money has to be worked off and they demand that ideology aside resumes that it's. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them bus abysmal or any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i say different ideas are often taught in smaller mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form

a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of many apartment blocks the art it's the mom's denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance official branches of islam. we don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a kidders who want to discredit as. we were told here believers are taught sincerely and equality are no longer up held in modern society looking with justice can only be achieved through. someone since islam is the only thing the way of life and social order now called radical extreme islamists and what's the punishment for stealing land. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal court nevertheless such ideas are reportedly gaining more support among young muslims for

some of its words it could be partly to blame on the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in the books by classical world famous authors. or the some of prophet muhammad saying how can we expect muslims to react course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course start their stand is a long week from becoming to by the worst of radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now keep the wrong news but only reversing the situation if you go to school of r g. we have more for you on this and many other stories on our website r.t. dot com. an eleven year old pakistani girl allegedly falls victim to any mom who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy and. companies are trying to wriggle out of billions of dollars worth of payments for the damage caused by this summer's record breaking.

heat. the latest unemployment figures for the eurozone put it at a record eighteen million in july that's more than ten percent the highest jobless rate since one thousand nine hundred five the worst affected country is spain where a quarter of the population is now out of work journalist and author miguel hole. says current economic policy isn't bringing a resolution of the crisis any closer. we haven't really tackled the problem with the eurozone we just have a program of austerity for all the different countries to reduce the deficit debt is certainly not enough is not working he says stifling growth which is an even worse problem and we are in the midst of

a recession certainly here in spain and very soon in many other european countries so unless we have a clear idea of how to reform the euro now we are not indeed good but it's not just the economic crisis it's also the economy policies spain east he said is now performing a very hard agenda of a steady two cats and that he's actually biting all sectors of his funny economy and the problem is that he's not where if you need not bringing down the deficit which is the main targets and then as i say he's damaging all the aspects of spain's economy. we'll have more on the eurozone crisis next hour including german chancellor angela merkel's attempts to tap into china's a financial wealth to spend billions to help shore up the struggling euro zone. now let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world for you this hour at least eight people have been killed in a u.s. drone strike near the town of rod in southern yemen three civilians are confirmed

to have been killed in the attack officials are still investigating the identities of the other five and their possible involvement in terrorist activities tribal leaders believe the target was a local al qaeda leader who survived the strike. hundreds of buddhist monks took to the streets of me in mars the second largest city in mandalay on saturday they gathered in support of government plans to deport or move to camps the muslim minority living in the country the idea came after a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the west of me and mar which left almost ninety people dead according to the un. muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. an epic event of the past has been brought back to life in russia thousands of actors in historic uniform have created the battle of when russian soldiers fought in the invasion of napoleon exactly two centuries ago. and has more from the front line. battle is raging here at the field of bora deano to

the west of moscow the french and the russians have squared up a cannons are blasting the infantry is squaring up and the cavalry is preparing to charge and the reenactment of the climactic battle of napoleon's invasion of russia two hundred years before cousens of people have turned out to see this reenactment and reenact as a coming both for russia and all the way from france and germany to take part really all of this on the scale of a hollywood film all the people here getting just a part of the experience of what it was like to be present at that great historical moment polly and marched into russia in one thousand told with what was there a largest army ever assembled he intended to make imperial russia soon for peace and so become a master of europe but it was here at this point to the west of moscow that the russians decided to stand and fight the result being an enormous long and brutal

civil war going much of a battle the french guns pounded the russian lines all day rather like this but the russians failed to break they stood their ground the next day they were forced to retire from the field having lost so many men but polian took moscow but he wasn't able to keep it within two years not only have the poland failed to make imperial russia super peacekeepers the russian army that was marching into paris. nice to see tom doing his part to make sure that russia wins that battle i'll be back in just a few moments with a recap of our top stories watching our team. i

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